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TB103: Factors Determining Potato Chipping Quality

The purpose of this investigation was (1) to investigate the relationship of four potato varieties, the sucrose content at harvest, storage temperatures, and the length of storage time to the color of chips from potatoes grown in central Maine and (2) to develop an equation that will help forecast the potential chipping qualit y of potatoes grown in central Mainehttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_techbulletin/1087/thumbnail.jp

Blueberry Research Progress Report

The 1975 edition of the Blueberry Research Progress Report was prepared for the Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include: 1. Insects Affecting the Blueberry 2. Weed Control in Blueberry Fields 3. Pruning of Blueberries 4. Integrated Management of Blueberry Fields 5. Selective Thinning of Black Barrenberries in Lowbush Blueberry Fields with Ethrel 6. The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Development of the Lowbush Blueberry Fruit 7. The Development of Blueberry Varieties Adapted to Maine 8. Factors Regulating Rhizome Initiation and Development in the Lowbush Blueberry 9. Mechanical Blueberry Harvesting 10. Blueberry Marketing and Cost Analysis of Producing Blueberries 11. New Food Products and Servic

Blueberry Research Progress Report

The 1976 edition of the Blueberry Research Progress Report was prepared for the Blueberry Advisory Committee by researchers at the University of Maine, Orono. Projects in this report include: 1. Effect of Plant-Water Stress on Lowbush Blueberry Growth, Yield and Quality 2. Insects Affecting the Blueberry 3. The Development of Blueberry Varieties Adapted to Maine 4. Weed Control in Blueberry Fields 5. Pruning of Blueberries 6. Integrated Management of Blueberry Fields 7. The Physiology and Biochemistry of the Development of the Lowbush Blueberry Fruit 8. Survey of Red Leaf Disease of Blueberries 9. Blossom Blight of Blueberries 10. Blueberry Marketing and Cost Analysis of Producing Blueberries 11. Factors Regulating Rhizome Initiation and Development in the Lowbush Blueberry 12. New Food Products and Servic

Cross-cutting principles for planetary health education

Since the 2015 launch of the Rockefeller Foundation Lancet Commission on planetary health,1 an enormous groundswell of interest in planetary health education has emerged across many disciplines, institutions, and geographical regions. Advancing these global efforts in planetary health education will equip the next generation of scholars to address crucial questions in this emerging field and support the development of a community of practice. To provide a foundation for the growing interest and efforts in this field, the Planetary Health Alliance has facilitated the first attempt to create a set of principles for planetary health education that intersect education at all levels, across all scales, and in all regions of the world—ie, a set of cross-cutting principles

The Genome of a Pathogenic Rhodococcus: Cooptive Virulence Underpinned by Key Gene Acquisitions

We report the genome of the facultative intracellular parasite Rhodococcus equi, the only animal pathogen within the biotechnologically important actinobacterial genus Rhodococcus. The 5.0-Mb R. equi 103S genome is significantly smaller than those of environmental rhodococci. This is due to genome expansion in nonpathogenic species, via a linear gain of paralogous genes and an accelerated genetic flux, rather than reductive evolution in R. equi. The 103S genome lacks the extensive catabolic and secondary metabolic complement of environmental rhodococci, and it displays unique adaptations for host colonization and competition in the short-chain fatty acid–rich intestine and manure of herbivores—two main R. equi reservoirs. Except for a few horizontally acquired (HGT) pathogenicity loci, including a cytoadhesive pilus determinant (rpl) and the virulence plasmid vap pathogenicity island (PAI) required for intramacrophage survival, most of the potential virulence-associated genes identified in R. equi are conserved in environmental rhodococci or have homologs in nonpathogenic Actinobacteria. This suggests a mechanism of virulence evolution based on the cooption of existing core actinobacterial traits, triggered by key host niche–adaptive HGT events. We tested this hypothesis by investigating R. equi virulence plasmid-chromosome crosstalk, by global transcription profiling and expression network analysis. Two chromosomal genes conserved in environmental rhodococci, encoding putative chorismate mutase and anthranilate synthase enzymes involved in aromatic amino acid biosynthesis, were strongly coregulated with vap PAI virulence genes and required for optimal proliferation in macrophages. The regulatory integration of chromosomal metabolic genes under the control of the HGT–acquired plasmid PAI is thus an important element in the cooptive virulence of R. equi